khooniatma
TF Buzz
Hi Friends,
I am planning a trip for two people to Australia. I need to book flights and hotels for the same. I am very new in airmiles/reward points optimisation game and have only ever used Smartbuy for my needs.
My expenses have been below the max monthly limit on accelerated reward points so I have never had to really think about how to best optimize.
These are the current cards I have -
1. Infinia
2. Sapphiro
Apart from this, I also have a Burgundy account with Axis, but no CC with them.
This is how I am currently thinking to optimise my spend -
1. Flights: Book flight tickets via Smartbuy on Sunday, 30th June to get the max cap of 15K points for June on Infinia.
2. Hotels: Book hotels in July (I know atleast 1-2 places that I want to book that require upfront payment). Since hotels is 10X RP, I am hoping I can max out 15K points for July as well.
3. Experiences and Day tours: Planning to book these closer to the trip - in August, September time frame, so that I can optimise this spend as well. I am not sure how much I will be able to optimise this, but will look to learn the basic RPs on these.
In total, I think would be able to accrue about 30K RPs through this process.
In addition to this, I am also thinking that if I split the hotel bookings between July and August, I can accrue an additional 15K points.
At 33% rate, we can get 15K points for a 46K spend, my total hotel cost for the trip would be somewhere >1L.
Therefore, in the best way scenario I can accrue 45K points.
Is there a better way to optimise the spend? The trip is planned in December, so if there is a much better to do this spend, I can get the corresponding card made (Atlas, Amex Plat?)
Thank you! Looking forward to your suggestions!
I am planning a trip for two people to Australia. I need to book flights and hotels for the same. I am very new in airmiles/reward points optimisation game and have only ever used Smartbuy for my needs.
My expenses have been below the max monthly limit on accelerated reward points so I have never had to really think about how to best optimize.
These are the current cards I have -
1. Infinia
2. Sapphiro
Apart from this, I also have a Burgundy account with Axis, but no CC with them.
This is how I am currently thinking to optimise my spend -
1. Flights: Book flight tickets via Smartbuy on Sunday, 30th June to get the max cap of 15K points for June on Infinia.
2. Hotels: Book hotels in July (I know atleast 1-2 places that I want to book that require upfront payment). Since hotels is 10X RP, I am hoping I can max out 15K points for July as well.
3. Experiences and Day tours: Planning to book these closer to the trip - in August, September time frame, so that I can optimise this spend as well. I am not sure how much I will be able to optimise this, but will look to learn the basic RPs on these.
In total, I think would be able to accrue about 30K RPs through this process.
In addition to this, I am also thinking that if I split the hotel bookings between July and August, I can accrue an additional 15K points.
At 33% rate, we can get 15K points for a 46K spend, my total hotel cost for the trip would be somewhere >1L.
Therefore, in the best way scenario I can accrue 45K points.
Is there a better way to optimise the spend? The trip is planned in December, so if there is a much better to do this spend, I can get the corresponding card made (Atlas, Amex Plat?)
Thank you! Looking forward to your suggestions!
